random word [adaptation]
(ref: here [no oneword entry for Thursday, 24 June 2010) The story began its journey in the mind of a fellow with little in the way of inspiration. Taking elements of fairly mundane details and twisting their descripting so as to appear daring and new, or at least different, the story looked about and discovered it had no limbs. Taking days, weeks, and a fair number of months to craft a plot, to develop characters, and to add and rewrite dialogue saw the story discover a voice, several sets of discarded legs and a rickety pair of sticks standing atop feet with three toes between them. As the weeks went by, the story would wake to find it had changed its appearance ... and slowly it came to understand itself a bit better; this bit was a character involved in a sort of coming-of-age experience; this other bit was a character designed as a foil for a third character; this third bit was included as a plot device. None of the bits seemed to fit. It was nine months before the stor...